The minuteness and undisguised description she had therein given struck me as very strange, and I augured that she herself must be a lewd and lecherous person, to have done more than merely hint at the affair, instead of dwelling, doubtless in erotic delight, on such details.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He ended his life, tired out, disillusioned, "deceived in everything, weighed down with regret;" obliged to crush the very hopes of his people he had encouraged, dying in 1825 at Taganrog, leaving his new Polish Kingdom to be wiped out by-his successors.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

It would be interesting to have added to these figures a computation of the number of gallons of such fluids spilled by the men of D during its entire military history, spilled from canteens and other fluid receptacles, especially the number of gallons spilled by the re-enlisted men when on their famous furlough in the Winter of 1864.
— from Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion by Albert Maxfield

In fact, we carry death in and around and about us, even, I may say, in our very being, for from the moment of our birth until the moment of our death, death is ever with us, death is ever working in our members.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

[the secretary of agriculture and the postmaster general] over which rural delivery is or may hereafter be established, such improvement to be for the purpose of ascertaining the increase in the territory which could be served by each carrier as a result of such improvement, the possible increase of the number of delivery days in each year,” etc.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

No matter whether the feeling proceeded from the acts and calumnies of designing demagogues, it existed.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

“Is it right that we evangelical Christians expend so much on all sorts of dress, delicacies in eating and drinking, etc., but have hitherto thought of no means for the spread of the Gospel?”
— from The Story of Lutheran Missions by Elsie Singmaster

One dull day in early December, when the sky had not lightened even at noon, a monotonous day in the Hinds House, since there had been no impromptu concert and the cards had been running with unsensational evenness, while every thread-bare topic seemed completely talked out, Uncle Bill walked restlessly to the window and by the waning light turned a bit of “rock” over in his hand.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

" The same thing was decreed for him as for Jesus Christ; for, as a matter of fact, they give him orders to go on duty down in Egypt.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

King Charles II soon came to fear the effect on local potteries of the extended importation of Dutch delft into England and in consequence issued a proclamation against this commerce, declaring the sale of Dutch delft in England to be “to the great discouragement of so useful a manufacture so late found out” at home, presumably by the potters of Lambeth, who naturally would not be slow in attempting to imitate the Dutch ware so flourishingly in vogue.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

The winter before that May, I went to service in the family of Dr. Drury in Eufaula.
— from Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton